Question about miscarrying

[Keeley85]

Hi this is my first ivf round and tomorrow is embryo transfer ... i keep hearing on these sights that you wait 2 weeks and then you do a pregnancy test. My question is if it all comes back positive how is it possible to misscarry a few weeks or months in to pregnancy ? I mean what are the reasons why this happens ? Sorry bit of a silly question but i just dont understand it xx

[katya38]

I think early miscarriage is very common up until 12 weeks the pregnancy is not deemed particularly safe. After 12 weeks the babies chance of survival improves.

[Keeley85 in reply to katya38]

Hey thank you for your reply it makes more sense now to me . What an awful thing to go through . Xx

[katya38 in reply to Keeley85]

Hi yes it's awful. I haven't had a miscarriage but my sister in law did it was an eptopic pregnancy where the baby grew in the wrong place. The awful thing about ivf is we know we are pregnant so early on.It prob increaseincreases our chance of miscarriage as we are more stressed x

[Datak]

I think naturally 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 of pregnancies naturally end in miscarriage. Most of the time it would be too early for people to even know they were pregnant to begin with. There are loads of different reasons why this might happen, genetics/ egg quality etc etc quite often they don't know why. With us .. we are obviously hyper aware of our pregnancy status from day one and some of us have a slightly higher chance for a variety of reasons. It's horrid and brutal but a bfp is just the first (very important and exciting) milestone towards a successful pregnancy. The beta blood tests are important they tell you how well things are going in the early days and then obviously you have the scans ... but honestly just try to take each step forward as a mini success and try not to think too far ahead. Really good luck with you ET tomorrow, I am certain all will be fine. Good luck x

[Jenkins89]

The 2 weeks wait after embryo transfer is the longest wait ever. I got a postive with my first cycle of icsi in June and then went for my scan at 6 weeks to say everything was OK. Had a scan at 8 weeks and was told we had lost it. There are no specific reasons why this happens. Ivf is a very hard emotional struggle and you will get through it. We are about to start our frozen cycle this week so hopefully we will get more positive news this time. Good luck with yours. ☺

[Missy_22]

I agree take each step as they come. BFP is the first small success, this happened with me on my first round of IVF and we had a scan at 7 weeks heart beat seen and week after at 8 weeks heartbeat had stopped! It is such a cruel world and so hard emotionally too.

I'm going for a full cycle again in October !

Good luck and all the best xx

[SharlyWarly]

Hi Keeley

This site has some useful information: miscarriageassociation.org.uk/ however be careful, don't get paranoid, you have every chance of a succesful pregnancy.

Best of luck xx

[nicknick]

Mcs might be also caused by chromosomal issues. In case of recurrent mcs, docs usually recommend combining ivf with PGS NGS

[Clariee]

Before the IVF - In Vitro Fertilization procedure you should be aware of certain facts and statistics about the treatment. The most important thing you should know is IVF will not give guarantee and instant results to everyone, But this is not what everyone can expect. The situation and condition of every individual is different.

The overall success rate of IVF procedure is from 1 to 100 percent, but the procedure may not work for you. Few of the women are very lucky to get pregnancy in their first cycle of IVF, but everyone is not so reality.

[80sDiva]

We all do IVF for all different reasons why are you worrying about miscarriage when you are just about to have your first embryo transfer lots of women carry full term no problems and some like myself have done 5 cycles 4 of them pregnancies and sadly all 4 ended in miscarriage and nobody knows why but it didn’t stop us trying again after our first loss, what I am trying to say is you have enough to think about without thinking about something that might never happen just try and relax and go with the flow I wish you all the best xxx